Genesis 31:37
Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Laban chased after Jacob intending to compel him to come back by force, but out of pity for Jacob God appeared to Laban in a dream and told him not to say anything good or bad to Jacob. That warning meant Laban was neither to force Jacob to return nor to press him with flattering offers meant to persuade him back. When the two men met, Laban charged Jacob with slipping away without his knowledge and leading off his daughters as if they were prisoners seized by the sword. At the same time Laban admitted that he had it in his power to injure Jacob, but that the God of Jacob's fathers had warned him the night before.
After Laban had gone through all of Jacob's belongings, Jacob challenged him to produce whatever he had found that belonged to his household. He called for anything discovered to be set out before the kinsmen on both sides, so that those relatives might judge between the two men whether he had taken anything at all. That challenge was a defense of the uprightness of his conduct during all his years of service. It set Laban's ungenerous course, in which he had studied only his own advantage, against Jacob's faithful work as a shepherd, in which he himself bore the loss of animals torn by predators and endured scorching heat by day, freezing cold by night, and the departure of sleep from his eyes.